Welcome to the project

Hello World.

This is a project for building a minimal linux operating system from scratch. I'm not an IT professional, just an amateur that wants to fulfill the personal dream and conquest the purpose of learning and building an minimal Linux OS.

The current status of the project is BETA. There is already a full functional ISO file to test the current build of the project. The system boots really fast in VirtualBox :)

You can download the current build (04.01.2010) here: http://www.mediafire.com/file/kozjmmnfmtz/MiniTux_Base.iso

The ISO file is only 5,72 MB. Test it in VirtualBox.

I'm looking for a free web to host all the files (iso files, sources files, packages files, scripts files, etc). Please help.

The base system is not yet closed, since I'm including some additional and essential packages to him. At this stage, the base system includes the following packages:

- Linux Kernel 2.6.31.6 (config file | source linux kernel 2.6.31.6)

- busybox-1.15.2 (config file | source busybox 1.15.2)

- syslinux 3.83

- bash 4.0

- ncurses 5.7

- PT_pt keymap (obtained from dumpkey command in Ubuntu)

- blkid 2.6 (from util-linux-ng 2.16.0)

- mkntfs 2.0.0 (libntfs 10:0:0)

- fuse 2.7.4

- ntfs-3g-2009.4.4

This project is licensed under GNU General Public License V3.

I'm using two hosts machines to compile de sources (SLAX) and build the ISO files (Ubuntu Karmic). SLAX is perfect to compile the sources since it gives me very few (almost unexistent) compile errors. Ubuntu sucks for compiling, so I'm using it to build the ISO from a script file (to be released to public very soon).

Please help. You can also participate in this project.